Helped CRD Gorakhpur in provision of trial mini kit of #Samba-Sub1 #Rice to a selected progressive farmer of Village: Sidhnath, Asiwan, Miangunj, Unnao, India

Samba-Sub1, is a submergence tolerant rice (Oryza sativa L) variety, with 135 days maturity period and a very good grain quality, often rated much better than the Samba Mahsuri variety.

The LEAD patron Prof. B. N, Singh is actively growing seeds of this variety at his research farm at Centre for Research and Development, Gorakhpur, and providing free trial kit of the seeds to interested farmers in different areas in the country. LEAD Trust identified a progressive farmer in the Sidhnath village of Asiwan, Miangaunj, Unnao to whom a mini kit with the seeds of  Samba-Sub1, enough to cultivate about half acre of field on trial basis was provided absolutely free of cost.

More about this variety can be found at this link

Literature Reviewed for Masood Rezvi's Book on Inflation

The moment I settled down to review the available literature on inflation on the Internet, the idea struck to my mind to collect and list them on a page in our blog, so that any one interested in the subject may also benefit from this collection, simultaneously, or later. I am creating this page with this purpose and propose to keep it updated on a regular basis.  I also propose to include the URL of this page in the book when it goes to press, so that readers may easily find out links to those web locations, which were referred to during the preparation of the book or which I find even later.

Hope this will be useful for any one intending to study the subject.

Truly Yours

Masood Rezvi

Some Interesting Videos:

1. Econ Vids for Kids: What is Inflation? By: InkwellMedia
2. What is Inflation? By: The School of Life
3. What is Inflation? By: Khan Academy
4. Introduction to inflation | Inflation - measuring the cost of living | Macroeconomics | Khan Academy By: Khan Academy By: Khan Academy
5. Phillips curve | Inflation - measuring the cost of living | Macroeconomics | Khan Academy By: Khan Academy
6. Actual CPI-U Basket of Goods By: Khan Academy
7. Inflation and Its Causes By: Iken Edu
8. What Causes Inflation?  By: Seeker Daily
9. Raghuram Rajan uses 'dosa economics' to explain inflation By: Raghuram Rajan Presented by NDTV.
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#LEAD Needs #LEADers

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Leaders never produce followers.

They produce leaders!

If you are a dynamic young person - young at heart, not necessarily in age - you are a potential LEADer. LEAD Trust needs you. Provided, you love truth, and you live finding it out through meticulous research. You do not like to go by preconceived notions and pre judgements of any type, especially about the people around and the society they make. You, as a matter of faith, believe in the equality of humans across all classifications and subdivisions and you have an insatiable thirst for research and hard work. You can join hands with us as a volunteer. 

You are ideally suited if you are a graduate or post graduate student trained in research methodology, or a research scholar preferably from any discipline in humanities or business administration with a high need for recognition, or may be simply for your summer project or your Doctoral Thesis. 

Or, may be you have retired from a very active service life and have a great experience of surveying and studying the society or of scientific work or developmental entrepreneurial training work, and now that you are free from the rote of prototyped duty, you want to self actualise, to become what you really are in your own eyes, and bask in the pleasure of serving fellow human beings. And love hard field work in urban slums and / remote rural areas and love mingling freely with those less fortunate humans who live there. Or may be you are a house wife and you want to be a change agent in the society.

At LEAD Trust, your work and your achievements will always be accredited with your own name. If and when published, due recognition will be given to you and in addition you will get a certification of having volunteered for the Trust. However, we do not provide any monetary remuneration of any sort to any of our volunteers. We are also quite frugal in our expenditures, because we want the funds to be used on the actual cause of charity and not on lavish expenditures.

If after reading this page you feel motivated to join hands with us, and you are 18 or above, you are welcome. Please go to this link and submit the filled up form. However, at this juncture we can not tell you when and if we will be able to invite you to work. Whenever we will have a suitable work for you as per our judgement we will let you know.

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#Adopt a #LEAD #Student

The first and fore most requirement for inclusive and sustainable growth is access to high quality higher education for all. But unfortunately, the field of opportunities for acquiring higher education is no more a level field in our country. Those who are on the lower side get sucked into a whirlpool of ever deepening misery and misfortune, making the field even more uneven.

We, the LEADers, dream of putting our humble effort in trying to level the field for those who have through their circumstances - social, economic, cultural, family or whatever - been put in a disadvantaged position thus being sucked into the vortex of misery and misfortune, generation after generation. No, doubt the government as well as many NGOs are doing a great job by providing many such students financial help through, different scholarships, soft-loans, and other such helps.

But we look on the issue from a different angle.

What is needed for any such child is not finance alone, but a full and complete adoption, mentor-ship and emotional and sentimental support till he or she becomes a grown up and strong individual. We wish to make an humble beginning from our immediate neighbourhood in and around Lucknow. We want to experiment the idea on a small pilot project basis adopting one or two post tenth student(s) and grooming the fellow to a level where he/she becomes a well-educated and self sustained individual. We request you to come forward and adopt at least one such student. We of course want the mentor to involve him/her into an unwritten, informal and sentimental covenant with the student, so supported,  that once self sufficient he/she will support at least two such students in  turn, thus,  producing a breed of LEADers in the distant future.

If you are convinced, are an Indian national, have a bank account and Income Tax PAN in India, and most important of all do not discriminate between humans on any basis, and want to adopt a LEAD Student, kindly contact us.

Our role will be limited to a facilitator and catalyst. We, will find one such student for you, give his or her family background to you and may be, put the two of you across a table or WhatsApp or Skype connection for an interview.

If you adopt the student you will have to pledge that you will groom him or her to the final point in his or her career like a parent, not like a donor; that you will know him or her personally and  not just as another number in the statistics of students helped or supported by you or by us.

You will have to pay the expenses directly to the educational institution for fee and  to the student for other expenses, like purchase of books, tools and stationary and conveyance expenses etc.

Contact LEAD Trust.

Sponsor #LEAD #Events. Use your #CSR #Funds Effectively and Efficiently

It is a well established fact that expenditure on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is not a waste. It is not only a legal obligation, but also gives those corporates who care for it a great social credibility and ultimately in the long run ensures their sustainability with profits. 

LEAD Trust is dedicated heart and soul in furthering the goal of sustainable growth as mentioned in its vision, mission and aims and objectives. We do organise different events towards achievement of these  objectives. You can find out about our upcoming events at the LEAD Events page.

We urge you to generously sponsor the events. We will put your message in the form of banners at the venue as also in the relevant literature we publish, and upload. Surplus saved from any such event if any will be used exclusively for charity.

If you have an idea in your mind for organising any event especially in or around Lucknow and want us to help you in it it can also be talked about.

You may perhaps like to see our pages  Proceedings of the National #Seminar on #Growth with Justice and Kisan Goshthi.

Go to LEAD Events page.
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Subscribe to #LEAD #Events

LEAD Trust, in order to achieve its aims and objectives regularly organises different events, like Kisan Goshthi,  Seminars, workshops and lectures etc. Such events are widely publicised in the press as well as through social media. Attending some of such events is free of cost (like the Kisan Goshthi)  while for some others, those who desire to attend pay a small contribution as a subscription to the event (mainly the seminars, workshops and lectures).  You can know about the upcoming event(s) by clicking on this link.

We request you to kindly subscribe to our events. They are worth it. You can check it for yourself by visiting to the page on Proceedings of the National #Seminar on #Growth with Justice. And, the amount of subscription is not more than what many of us easily spend on an evening outing in the city or a fun mall or water park.

You can also help us in our mission by sharing the news about our events with as many of you friends as you can. You can do it without incurring any cost on the social media. Please help us.

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Write with us a #LEAD #Book, become a #LEAD #Author and get recognised internationally.

Your first book is just throbbing within you, like a baby in its mother's womb! Isn't it?

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You express yourself beautifully through your words. Your friends and the people who know you always urge you to write, write a book. 

You have observed the society keenly. You have noticed conflicts and cooperation minutely; in a way and from an angle, no  ordinary person would ever have. You have some new explanation to a phenomenon because of your particular "out of the tunnel vision" which the world should know.  

Or may be you are a passionate photographer and you have a collection of exquisite shots which you like to publish in the form of a book of photographs.

Or you just came back from your vacation in the hills or on the sea and want to share your memories with the world. 

And, of course you have your story to share with the world or have written great poems. 

Or, may be you are a student or a scholar who needs to be published in order to be recognised in your particular subject. 

Oh you have conceived your first book!!

You experienced this! Didn't you?

You approach a well known book publisher. 

They ask you about your earlier experience as a book author and the moment they know that you want them to publish your début book, they become pricey. And you keep on running from one publisher to the other till you get exhausted and just strangulate the author within you. 

If you are a die hard stubborn type, you decide to publish your own book. You get it printed in your own locality and spend say 1,50,000 INR or more on the process, take the load of a thousand printed copies to your home. 

But the book you have printed perhaps lacks an ISBN number. 

Then you take out 5 or 6 copies and start visiting your friends' places informing each of them one by one that now you have become an author. You take out one copy, autograph it beautifully and gift it to your friend, who out of courtesy leafs through for a few minutes and if you watch the eye movements of the fellow closely you instantly know that nothing is being read! 

You leave for the house of another friend. 

Back at the first stop the spouse of your friend enters the room, picks up the book looks at the title and your name, laughs and tells your friend: 

"So the crazy chum of yours has become an author."

"Poor soul! Could never find a good work to do!"

If you have very good relations with the media people, you go forth, get a decent book release ceremony organised and spend another 50 k bucks on it to get the news published in the local newspapers that you have become an author. Collect all the newspapers the next morning, painstakingly take out the cuttings, paste them on drawing paper and make an album out of them, get them scanned and post them on the social media. 

Whoosh ... There it ends ...

But we can publish your book without any hassle:

Instead, you can write with us and become a LEAD Author. You will have to make no expense except whatever you make on getting your book typed in MS Word and sending it to us. You simply send us the said file if it matches our standards we will get it published for you with an ISBN number duly assigned. Your book will be internationally distributed through Amazon.com and their associates in paper back form as well as in digital form in their Kindle edition. It will be catalogued with many book depositories the world over, thus maximising the chance of being spotted by the right people interested in your subject, and any one who is really interested in the subject will be able to read it in paperback format or kindle format. 

And who knows, if a film producer or someone like that approaches you from the Hollywood or Bollywood or a TV serial producer contacts you for your story, or a professor in your subject from some very high ranking university, or the editor of a magazine or journal approaches you on reading your book.

See the LEAD Books already in print:

If you want to see the books we have already published kindly visit the  LEAD Books page. If you wish to see the quality of printing you can order a copy from Amazon or their associates page, which you can reach by clicking the appropriate country link provided their. For example if you want to purchase "Tightening Noose of Poverty" by Masood Rezvi in India in paper back format, please click here. Similarly, if you want to read "Tightening Noose of Poverty - Abridged" in Kindle format please click here.

What you will get?

1. The pride and honour of being the author of an ISBN numbered book, in the subject of your choice
2. International hassle free distribution of your book, around the globe.
3. Your book will be available to readers both in paperback and digital format
4. Inclusion in international catalogues thus maximising the chance of being discovered by an interested reader the world over.
5. No expense to make except on typing, if you do not do it yourself, and sending the file to us.
6. Our expert advice on language grammar and formatting etc, as a courtesy whenever and wherever necessary and feasible.
7. Mention of your book in our blogs, reports and during our events etc. 
8. Possibility of arranging a book release ceremony at your expense if you so wish.
9. Best thing; even if after publishing you want to make a change or amendment, you can! Yes it is possible without spoiling any unsold stock unlike in case of traditional printing. But we will normally charge a  fee for each such change you make. 

 Copyright:

The copyright of your script will remain yours. However, you shall not use the ISBN number which we procure for your book neither you shall use the cover or its image if we get it produced for you.

Royalty:

As you know we are a not for profit organisation. We give our managerial and technical services to you free of cost and we have to raise funds for further do-gooding, that we intend to do as per our vision, mission and objectives. We thus expect you to forego the royalty in favour of the Trust and assure you that every paisa, penny or cent of it will be used only  for charity. Once your book becomes popular, perhaps many of the traditional main stream publishers will approach you for printing it. Then you can make money with them, as the copyright remains yours. 

With us you will earn the pleasure of good doing along with a great recognition, name and fame but NO money. 

Your copy:

You purchase it.

Your liability:

It will be your responsibility to ensure that the copyright of the work including all its components, for example tables, illustrations, pictures, images, etc is yours and though we will scrutinise the work to conform to our standards and will be free to reject it without assigning any cause, it will remain solely your responsibility to ensure that the matter is not offensive, obscene, libellous, or objectionable in any way as per the laws of any country where it is sold,   and you will have to indemnify, us, our trustees, employees, agents and associates against any peril that may arise due to the publication of your book by us.

You also authorise us to fix the price of the book and change it as and when needed absolutely as per our own judgement and discretion.

Got it. What to do to become a LEAD Author?

Share a portion of your great work (2000 to 5000 words) in a MS Word file  along with other details with the LEAD Editorial Team through the form that will open up for you on clicking this link. Please ensure to provide your correct email address in the form as also at the end of the word file. We will contact you any time within a month of your submission. 

If you have any query please feel free to contact us.